Birmingham City manager Lee Clark has declared that he has no intention of selling goalkeeper Jack Butland

Birmingham City manager Lee Clark has declared that he has no intention of selling goalkeeper Jack Butland to Liverpool or any other club.

PA PhotosJack Butland was understudy to Joe Hart and Rob Green at Euro 2012

Liverpool have been linked with a £7.5 million move for the 19-year-old, who became England's youngest-ever goalkeeper when he made his debut against Italy in Berne on Wednesday.

Butland, who went to Euro 2012 with England, was also Team GB's first-choice goalkeeper during the Olympics.

The goalkeeper has limited experience at domestic level he only made his Birmingham debut on Saturday, having played 24 times on loan at League Two Cheltenham last season.

Steven Gerrard has vowed to carry on operating as an attacking midfielder for Liverpool this season.

Steven Gerrard has vowed to carry on operating as an attacking midfielder for Liverpool this season.

Gerrard, 32, worked well in a more defensive role for England during Euro 2012 but insists he still has the energy and power to drive forward and dismissed any notion that he should consider dropping back in the manner of Paul Scholes at Manchester United.

Instead, he wants to continue making the attacking runs from midfield that have been a key part of his game - and Liverpool's - since he broke into the team in 1998 and said he was ready to do that for new boss Brendan Rodgers when Liverpool start their Premier League season at West Brom on Saturday.

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Liverpool legend says it could be another season of re-building for the Anfield club.

"The manager has spoken to me about what role he sees me filling and I still think he sees me as an attacking midfielder," Gerrard told the Liverpool Echo.

"As we work through the ages, maybe 33 or 34, then maybe I might be dropping a bit deeper, but I don't think anything is going to change in my game this season.

A host of Europe's leading clubs have been alerted by an admission from Ibrahim Afellay

A host of Europe's leading clubs have been alerted by an admission from Ibrahim Afellay's agent that the Barcelona midfielder could be available on a season-loan deal.

AssociatedIbrahim Afellay could be sent out on loan this season

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Premier league sides Arsenal and Liverpool have been linked with Netherlands international Afellay, while Serie A clubs Inter Milan, Lazio, AC Milan and Fiorentina, as well as Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund and French club Lille, are also reportedly interested.

"Afellay could go out on give for a assemblage," his emblematical, Rob Theologist, told European reporters over the weekend. "Yes, that is a being."

Afellay, 26, joined Barcelona from PSV Eindhoven in January 2011, and immediately played a key role in the club's victorious Champions League campaign. He has since struggled to hold down a first-team place at the Camp Nou and missed most of last season with a serious cruciate ligament injury.